Rational discussion of violence needed

6:38 PM,
Mar. 2, 2013

Richard Delong

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Richard Delong

In 1956, when I was 8, my older sister took me to "the show." We country folk called movies "shows" back then. Some of our acquaintances called their automobiles the "machines," too. Showing that night at the Moonlight Auto Theater, a drive-in movie theater on East Main Street in Chillicothe was "The Day the World Ended." Some things children ought not see. The world didn't end that night, but a big part of my childhood inner peace and innocence did.

Now, we would call this movie a sci-fi/horror flick. Its premise can be succinctly stated: Nuclear war happened. (Remember, the atomic bombs had ...